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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1937-07-30

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1937-07-30, page 01

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A WElEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Volume XVII—No. i88
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JUF.Y 30, nj:x7
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy im
Strictly Conedential
By PHINEAS J. BIROn
Schulman Warns of Jewish
Nationalism in Proposed
Jewish State
About People
You can find plenty of polilicat ob¬ servers who insist that Governor Leh¬ man's open disagreement with Roose¬ velt over thc Supreme Court reform hill is the opening shot in the New York governor's bitl for a Senatorial toga ... Dut you can find just as many who believe it foreshadows Lehman's definite retirement from public life at the expiration of his present term... When you read about the wonders per¬ formed by Marconi, inventor of the wireless, don't forget that his great achievements were based on the dis¬ covery of the radiation of electromag¬ netic waves by Heinrich Hertz, a Ger¬ man Jewish scientist Incidentally, the first major use of wireless was m reporting the sinking of thc Titanic m 1912, and the operator who received the news of the disaster was David Sarifoff, now president of the Radio Corporation of America . Oddest job of the year honors go to Louis Zmberg, hair removal expert, who's bound for South America to persuade Latiji - Americans to remove their bcartls and mustaches Lord Du
Veen's priceless art collection was started by his ancestor, a blacksmith In the medicine chest of the Mac- Crc^or Arctic Expedition is a new preparation to prevent sunburn and windburn developed by Eli Gcrshono- witz| a Jersey City druggist . . . Ver¬ non Duke, Dukelsky to you, will get the job df completing the unfinished musical assignments of George Gersh¬ win '
To Be or Not to Be Partitioned
The Aga Khan, multi-mdhonaire spiritual head of miUions of Moslems in India and Africa, is going on : secret mission in behalf of the Brit¬ ish govern'mcnt to wm Moslem sup port for Palestme partition . Zion¬ ists arc wondering what happened to the much-touted anti-partition speech Cleveland's Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver was to have made at a mass meeting of t^e Federation of English Zionfsts . It didn't come off.. We hear that Vladimir Jabotinsky's uncompromising opposition to partition is weakening .. The Hearst papers will follow up their Lloyd George scoop on partition with an anti-partition article by Winston Churchill . Incidentally, all the Hearst papers are plumping against' partition for all they're worth Stephen S. Wise will attend the ses¬ sion of the Mandates Commission which will debate partition . Did you notice that the House of Com-1 mons took time out to debate the' Palcor-Seven Arts scoop on the Royal Commission report^
Nazis Are Like That
Hitler must be getting jealous of us In the fall he intends to start a daily newspaper column ..That the Nazis are not adverse to exploiting Jews abroad when it serves the long- range political objectives of Germany IS disclosed by a sensational piece of Nazi propaganda that has just come to light As part of their drive
against Czechoslovakia, the Nazis have flooded Central Europe with millions of copies of a leaflet containing the details of an alleged Czechoslovakian scheme to create a new Pan-Slavic empire by addmg Poland and Hun- garj to Czechoslovakia . Among other things, the leaflet says that when thc plan becomes effective the Jews now living' within the borders pf the proposed empire . will be segregated and shipped en masse to Birobidjan... At least 30 members of, the British House of Commons,and a dozen mem¬ bers of the House of Lords are secretly allied with Sir Oswald Mosley's Fas¬ cists . .'. Friedrich Nietzsche, long re¬ garded as the patron saint of Nazism, is in dutch in Germany ... Kurt vori Westernhagcn, a Nazi author, has at¬ tacked the' pan-German philosopher as pro-Jewisi) . . . But the Nazi press is hesitating to acclaim Westernhagcn, fearing, embarrassment if it excom¬ municates Nietzche's works at this late date...
Things to Watch
Pro-Nazi elements in the Amateur Athletic Union are sharpening the axe for President Jeremiah T. Mahoney ...The first blow.will fall when some 20 Mid-west clubs friendly to ex-pres¬ ident Avery Brundage, of Olympic Games fame, announce their resigna¬ tion from the A. A. U. . . . , This i: said to be the first move in the crea¬ tion of a rival body . .. The Brundage crowd doesn't like Mahoney's' efforts to bring labor into, the sports picture . . . We never met the first seven hus¬ bands of Mrs. Virginia Cogswell of Atlanta, Georgia, but we surely don't (CotMniui m page 8)
NEW YORK (WNS)—Denying that the proposed partition of Palestine is an admission of British failure and expressing the beljcf that Jewry "can still trust British statesmanship," Rabbi Samuel Schulman, rabbi emeri¬ tus of New York's Temple Emaiiu-EI, in a letter to thc New York Times commenting on the plan to set up a Jewish State in Palestine, reiterates his -anti-Zionist views,' assails, Jewisii nationalism and reaffirms his 'behci tiat the Jews are only a religioua community and not a race or a nation He says that "nationalism is about tl^c worst conception with which Israel can be called upon to operate," and adda that "our redemption cannot come by way of Palestme" but only through the fjible and "the strengthening of liberty and democracy and humanity in the world."
Warning that "the imagination ol thc Jpws must not be concentrated on Palestine," Rabbi Schulman declares that the relations of the Jews of the world to the proposed Jewish State "would be those of brethren united in religion and separated from them by nationality The Jews would help —^as they are helping now—immigra¬ tion of as many Jews from lands o( persecution as possible mto that new State They would feel a certain sat¬ isfaction if their coreligionists made a success in state building But the Jews in all the other lands are na¬ tionals of the lands to which they be¬ long They wdl under no circum¬ stances accept a hyphenated position' Nevertheless he urges the Jews to ac¬ cept partition, but to ask for more land for the Jewish State He also declares that the Jewish problem can¬ not he solved by whatever may be done m Palestine, but in the lands in which the masses of Jews live "by the recog¬ nition of Christendom's responsibdity for the equality of human rights to which the Jew is entitled^'
McMahon Breaks Long
Silence, Denies Pledge
To' Arabs.
LONDON (WNS —Palcor Agency) — Dramatically break¬ ing his twenty years of silence on the pledge which he made on lichalf of thc British govern¬ ment to the' Arabs during tlie war. Sir Henry McMahon made a statement emphatically deny- - ing that any promise which he made to King Hussein included Palestine. Deelarlng "that -his" silence hag often heen misunder¬ stood and that he therefore felt bound to make a statement re¬ garding the pledges made to the Araba, Sir Henry wrote a^ fol¬ lows in an article published in the London Times:
"I definitely and emphatically must declare that the promise to King Hussein for Arab inde¬ pendence did not include Pales¬ tine. I also had every reason to believe at the time that tho fact that Palestine was not included in this pledge was well under¬ stood by King Hussein." As British High Commissioner of Egypt, Sir Henry wrote a letter to the Sherif of Mecca in Octo¬ ber, 1915, pledging British as¬ sistance for Arab independence in exchange for Arab assistance against the Turks.
Good Will Movement to Concentrate on ^"^ ^^.I^ZrlZJ^'''^ Teacher-Training Schools Next Year
NEW YORK (WNS)—Tp train future instructors oi'tlic nation in the proficient use of thfe best technique? for developing iii yjoung people atti¬ tudes tending toward tlie achievement of human relationships niofc in keep¬ ing with American ^'policies, the Na- tional Conference of! Jews and Chris¬ tians, will make itsyprimary interest during the coming ;|ear an intensive effort for the prbnibtion of its tech- ni(iue for furthering! more wholesome 'hiEfir-fdith'telaiiOHst^ps among facul-^ ties and undcrgradu itcs in teacher training colleges throughout the coun¬ try, It was annountctl here hy Dr Everett R Chnchy^ director of thc Conference, in maldng public a re¬ port of the organization's work m edu¬ cational institutions! during the past year Citing a mariJcd trend m reli¬ gious work on college campuses m communication and cnoperation, with¬ out compromise ^nd convictions, among Protestant, <titholic and Jew ish leaders, Dr jChnchy's report iccommends the appointment of a com¬ mission of American educational lead et-s in school and college administra tive work to plan and guide the con
National Commander of
J. W.V. to Speak Here
Monday
Winston Churchill Sees Partition Breeding Arab- Jewish War
ference's prograni ,in educational insti¬ tutions.
The report shows that in the past year the conference cooperated with faculties of 117 colleges of religious connections aiid 30 state universities; its speakers addressed over l(iO,60u high school students in 35 states"; in¬ structors and students were reached by seminars and institutes; human re¬ lations projects, were inaugurated at Newark University and Johns Hop¬ kins University, declamation and c^say Lontests were sponsored among public, high school and junior college stu¬ dents , negotiations were opened with the National Education Association for an inquiry to discover what considera¬ tion IS being given or can he innovated in the curricula and teaching of Amer¬ ican schools and colleges in respect to problems arising from American cul¬ tural pluralism, and the conference co¬ operated With the Progressive Educa¬ tion As-^ociation, which has taken over the research and experimental project m the field of human relations which the conference helped to support for Mx: vears
HARRY SCHAFFER
Harry Schaffer, National Coin- mandi-r of the Jewish War Veterans of the U S, will be in Columbus next Monday, August 2d, to address the opening mectnig of the National Convention of the Disabled American Veterans of the .World War. At noon National Commander Schaffer will confer with the officers and mem¬ bers of Capitol Post No. 122 of the Jewiah War Veterans at a luncheon meeting to be lield at the Continental Restaurant on E. Long St,.
During the middle of August, at a definite date to be nfcntioned later, a stale caucus pf officers and leaders from, various Posts, of the Jewish War Veterans in Ohio will take place here in Columbui. At this confer¬ ence certain matters will be taken up regarding the National Convention of the Jewish War Veterans which is to take place the latter, part of August.
'Vacation Day" Is Planned
By Temple Sisterhood
For Aug.,llth
Wedneday, August U; is the date set for the annual "Vacation Day" of the Rose E> Lazarns Sisterhood. Mrs. Allen Gundersheimer, 42 Park Drive, president of the Sist^rhaod, has extended an invitation to all mem¬ bers to come to her home that day at 2:30 o'clock. Bingo, niah jong, and bridge will be enjoyed and will be fol¬ lowed by a tea, Watch next week's Chronicle for further announcements.
NEW YORK (WNS)-Far from solving the knotty problem of Arab- Jewish relations, thc proposed parti¬ tion of Palestine merely guarantees the continuance and mteasification of Arab- Jewish difficulties and is hkely to lead to an Arab-Jewish war, Winston Churchill, former British Colonial Secretary and memher, of the vuar- tifflc cabinet that~ issued the Balfour Declaration, declares m a copyrighted article appearing in the Hearst news¬ papers Calling tlie partition plan "a council of despair" which if earned into effect "marks the end of the Zion¬ ist dream," Churchill points out that since there are almost as many Arabs as Jews in thc proposed Jewish state, the Royal Commission's argument that Jews and Arabs cannot dwell peace¬ ably side by side is vitiated because, as he asks, "how can it be believed that they will dwell together m amity within the narrow compass of a frac¬ tion of that land'"
Warning that "thc same troubles (will) reproduce themselves m mten- sificd form inside a tiny Jewish sovereign state as have thrown all Pal¬ estine into strife," the veteran states- imn predicts that the Jewish state will ha\e to be armed to the teeth to resist the encroachments of fhe Ajrab stitc and its ally, Iraq This would also endanger the British garrison and administration in thc proposed neutral area, he asserts, criticizing the British Government's failure to state what guarantees of protection it would give to the Jewish and Arab states and to the minorities in either to prevent them from becoming victims of aggression The absence of such guarantees, he protests, "would be an opening for Nazi and Fascist propaganda and in trigue to arouse and marshal the A^^b peopled -and to. use them as a new means of pressure upon the British on his difficult beat."
Claiming that there is no reason "Which should lure us into such a .trap," and predicting that the e.stali- lishment of soyiereign Arab and Jew¬ ish states uncontrolled by England would make Britain's responsibilities impiossible to discharge, he deplores the failure to take Into account grave strategic problems, praises Parliament for refusing to commit itself finally to partition and expresses the hope that in the interval Arabs and Jews will yet find a way of getting together in the interests of peace. He also points out that much of the Arab fears of Jewish domination arise from the flood of Jewish immigration resulting from "the cruel persecutions of Jews in Germany" and the "exploitation of anti-Semitism as a means by which violent reactionary forces seize or at' tempt to seize despotic power." Argu¬ ing that this is not Britain's fault, he declares that while "the duty of re¬ ceiving and aiding these unhappy out¬ casts should have been broadly shared by the free, wealthy and parliamentary nations." the "brunt of this work has fallen upon this very small country and the administration of Palestine.''
Spanish Leader Deplores
Militant Anti-Fascist
Attitude pf Jews
NEW YORK (WnS)—Lamenting the fact that Jews art too militantly anti-Fascist, Salvador de Madanaga, former Spanish reprcsentati\e to the League of Nations, calk "the reaction provoked by the Jewish oppression under the Hitler regime' one of the three forces which Iia\e led the Left astray in the world-wide struggle be¬ tween Fascism and anti-FasLism In an article called "Thc Errors of the Left in the Right-Left War" m the New York TiraCs*' "Magazine, Senor Madariaga declares 'no human being with even a smattering of history can be Ignorant of ttl Splendid service rendered to civilization by the Jewish race Even if religious prepossessions prevent such a person from realizing that the greatest spiritual creative force of Western civilization is derived from a Jew—^Jesus of Nazareth—the great name of Spinoza should sufBcc to establish our Western debt to Jewish culture ^Iso, there are abundant in¬ dications—soon, I hope, to be proved as certainties—to show that Christo¬ pher Columbus was a Spanish Jew
But when all that is said, the fact remains that the psychological reaction of many Jews toward the inhuman treatment inflicted on their brethren by the Nazi regime is a political blunder of the greatest magnitude The strength of the Jew has always con¬ sisted in his being everywhere a force making toward freedom of thought and of liberalism; m being everywhere in favor of the method of mental agree¬ ment ^ni^ i^ot that of physical fight Owing to a passionate reaction easy to understand, with which one may sympathize jet which one must re¬ gret, the Jews often in recent years have taken a militant anti-Fascist at¬ titude which displaces them from the ground on which they had always stood, and where they should remain, for It 15 on that ground that their spiritual force lies And there is no mistaking the fact that m tlie error be^ ing committed by the Left in ado[lting such a militant warlike attitude to¬ ward dictatorships, the Jewish situa¬ tion is an unfortunate and powerful factor."
VIENNA (WNS)—Citing figures to show that since 1933 no new Jewish physicians have been admitted to any Austrian hospitals and that all .Jew¬ ish physicians admitted to practice in the last five years liave been starving, the'Union of Jewish doctors of Austria has issued an appeal to Australian Jews to discourage their sons and daughters from studying niedicine. The appeal warns that there is' no future for Jewish doctors in Austria.
20th World Zionist Con¬ gress to Open Tuesday In Zurich
Eyes of World on Assembly Be^ cause of Proposed New Pal¬ estine Mandate
DICKSTEIN NAMES 46
NAZI SPIES AND AGENTS
IN AMERICA
New Jersey Veterans Ash 3 Probes of Nazi Camp
NEWARK, N J (WNS)—Inves¬ tigations by the federal department of justice, the state attorney general and statci legislature, of subversive actni- ties at Camp Noidland, Nazi camp at Andover, N J, were called for m resolutions adopted by the command¬ ers of 30 posts of the American Le¬ gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Jew¬ ish War Veterans, Irish War Veter¬ ans and the Order of thc Purple Heart, who met here to consider steps against the Nazi camp The resolutions were adopted by the -veteran leaders m their individual capacities but they agreed to urge their posts to endorse them
Ladies' Mizrachi Picnic Will
Be Held Sunday at
Olentaiiigy Park
The annual picnic of the Ladies Mizrachi Society which was arranged for last Sunday, was postponed on ac¬ count of rain, and will take place to¬ morrow (Sunday), August 1st, at Olentangy Park.
Everything has been done to make this event one of the most enjoyable for both young and old. Varioiis games and amusements, prizes, etc. will be offered by the organization. Thc proceeds of this annual affair will go towards caring for many of the Polish and German refugees in Pales¬ tine. The co-operation of the Jewish people of this city 9nd surrounditig towns is most essential to.assure the success of this undertaking. ' The entire community is invited to the picnic Sunday. There will be much in store for everyone in the way of entertainment
WASHINGTON, D C (WNS)— Charging that Nazi organizations m this country now had a membership of 350,000, Representative ^Samuel Dick- stem of New York, called on the House of Representatives to adopt. Representative Martin Dies' resolution pro\iding for a congressional investi¬ gation of Nazi, Fascist and Commun¬ ist activities After etllmg the House that State Senator William Dolan of Sussex county, "and possibly other politicians," had a hand in the purchase or lease of the Andover camp site by the German-American Bund, Representative Dickstein read a tele¬ gram from W J. Carney, New Jer¬ sey director of the Committee for In¬ dustrial Organization, asking Congress to look mto the Nazi camps and as- saihng (jovernor Hoffman of New Jersey for his ' laxitj in the investiga¬ tion of Nazi encampments at Camp M 0 r d 1 a n d and throughout New Jersey "
Furloughs for Jewish Soldiers And Sailor's
WASHINGTON, D C (WNS)— Jewish soldiers and sailors in the United States Army and Navjf will be granted Rosh Hashanah furloughs commencing at sundowii, Sunday, Sep- teftiber 5th, and ending Tuesday, Sep¬ tember 7th, according to orders issued here by the ^at and Navy Depart¬ ments. The orders also provide for Yom Kippur furloughs beginning at sundown Tuesday, September .14th and ending at sundown Wednesday, Sep¬ tember 15th. Similar orders have been issued by, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Veterans Administration and the Civilian Con¬ servation Corps, A
Invents Mask to Prevent Hay Fever
CINCINNATI (WNS)-CIimax ing five years of research, Dr. Joseph B, Hiederman of Cincinnati announced the successful completion of an anti- hay-fever mask which uses electrically charged plates to preVent the entrance of the disease-causing pollens into the nose and mouth. Tests on 40 patients gave perfect results.
Bar Jewls from Armed Groups
VIENNA (WNS)-AUhough the Union of Jewish War Veterans was recently admitted to the Fatherland Front, quasi-Fascist government party, Jews are to be excluded from the new armed groups the fatherland front is planning to establish for the protection of meetings and the policing of demon¬ strations, according to reports ii;i the Austrian press.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (WNS)—The 20th World Zionist Congress, Vvhich opens here Tuesdav (August 3rd) is recognized as the most important to be held during thc 10 years of Zionist Congress history Already indications point to a greater attendance of delegates and guests than St any other similar gathering in the past Zionist flags arc already flying alt over the city and although tha opening ceremonies are still a few days away, "Congress atmosphere" perme¬ ates this Swis-i city Every train and plane arriving here brings delegates and visitors from the four corners of the earth The advance guard has given this city an unusual cosmopolitan area Gabardined Jews from Eastern Europe speaking Yiddish congregate in the same hotels with smooth-shaved delegates from Western Europe and America Virtually every language m the world is now heard in Zurich as the Congress delegates eagerly spec¬ ulate on the decisions of the mo¬ mentous assembly
This wdl be the first Congress at which the dean of modern Zionism, the late Nahum Sokolow, will not be present Missing too will be many other striking figures of the Zionist old guard who have passed on since the Idth Congress convened in Lucerne two years ago It goes without say¬ ing that much of the tensity and ex¬ citement anticipated because of the partition plan ate lacking because of the decision of the British Govern¬ ment to uithhold final action on the division of Palestine until after it has been acted upon by the League of Nations Nevertheless, partition is the chief topic of conversation and will undoubtedly he the keynote of the po¬ litical debate.
From advance calculations approxi¬ mately 350 delegates will represent the various countries Labor Zionists are expected to have a clear majority. The other raajcjr parties, however, wilt have a very articulate representation and oratorical clashes between the Poale-Zion, the General Zionists, the Mizrachi and the Jewish State party arc expected on the vital issues to be discussed Dr Chaim Weizmann president of the World Zionist Or¬ ganization and of the Jewish Agency, will undoubtedly be the pivotal figure at the Congress His political steW' ardship will be subjected to close scrutiny by those who oppose Zionist Labor The World Zionist Executive will come before the Congress united, there having been the closest rela¬ tionships between the Laborites, David ben Gurion and Moshe Shertok, and Dr. V\^eizmann. Mttch speculation re- vplves around the positioit that Dr. Stephen S. Wise, leader of the Amer¬ ican delegation, will take on the po¬ litical situation. Because of his great influence in American political circles he will be regarded not only as the principal spokesman for the American delegation but as one of the key figures at the Congress.
Fifty-four countries will be refirct sented by one or more delegates, Den¬ mark being repr^ented for the first time. The entire Congress will be the tiiost representative of all time, thc delegates having been elected by 1,2D0,- 000 shekel payers throughout the world. The German delegation, ever since the advent of the Hitler regime in a rather delicate position, will be joined this time by the Italian dele' gation, if one comes. Both of these Zionist groups will have to tread softly as their words and acts at the Con gress will be closely watched by agents of Italy and Germany. It is wel! known also that practically every gov¬ ernment in Europe, with a genuine in' terest in the ultimate fate of Palestine will be unofficially represented at the Congress by observers carefully weigh¬ ing the sentiment of world Zionism as regards the proposed new mandate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNS)— As evidence of the existence, of what ¦ he called a "well-organized, subversive, ¦ i un-American spy system" by Nazi or- . ganizations and agents in this coun- : try, and in support of the. mOve for , an investigation of Nazi propaganda, Representative Samuel Dickstein of .New York laid.before the House of ¦ Representatives the names of .46 per¬ sons whom he, described as "Nazi propagandists agents, stool pigeon^ and spies', the location of 21 Nazi camps, and the names of some 51 pur¬ ported Na?j organizations in the East¬ ern part of thc United States
TFie persons identified as N^z^ agents were
Kitty Aschciibrcnner Disguised as nurbe, sht was for a long time active as a Nazt agetit in this country - She was finally e^cposed and deported^ Kurt Beyer enrolled member of the N S D. A P. Manager of San Francisco office of German railroads, Withe Belle Owner of large furni¬ ture store, 1495 Third Ave , New York City, and a notorious Nazi sym¬ pathizer, Carol Brunkhorst forme Stahlhcini contact man and confiden¬ tial messLnger, Hans Cremer Con¬ tact man between Bunaste Leader Deutsch and N S D A P. in Ger- manv, Richard Desseckcr Adjutant leader qf ' American National" Labor Party, Joachim Deutsch Leader of the Bunaste, Colonel Edwin Emerson American lawjer, jour;iaIist and ad¬ venturer Employed hy Nazis as "front" to disguise their activities and give them ostensible legal foundation, Fritz Gissibl The power behind the throne in Nazi intrigue m this coun¬ try and one of the leaders of the Friends of New Germany, or its suc¬ cessor, the Bund, Rev Francis Gross An ex-Catholic priest and vitriolic anti-Semitic writer, Walter Haag: Former aide to Spanknoebel, at pres¬ ent engaged in Gestapo work with the German National Railways Bureau m Toronto, Canada; Hugo Haas NaT-
Nazi Fuehrer Demands Con¬ gress Probe Nazi Groups
NEW YORK <WNS)—Seek¬ ing to "btop the nonsense of Congressman Samuel Dickstein once and forever/* Fritz Kuhn, head of the Nazi German-'Am^r- ican Bund* came ont for an in¬ vestigation of his organization and its various aflSliates, includ¬ ing its camps. In a telegram to Speaker Bankhead pf the House of Representatives Kuhn said: "I demand, as an American citi¬ zen, an investigation of our or¬ ganization and our camps.'*
tiohal Commander of the Youth Move¬ ment of the Friends ol New Germany, or its successor, the Bund, Anton Hacgele "American National" Labor Party, Dr. Ernst Franz Hanf- staengf, forerunner of Spanknoebel m the United States Posing as picture salesman, he succeeded m raising funds for Hitler previous to his seizure of power Enlisted contact men for Spanknoebel and generally cleared the way for hmi A memher of the Bund, Dr. Ignatz Briebl Nazi organization leader, formerly with Harlem Hospital m New York, Uschla spy, Ingram Hughes: Lawyer and translator in Loa Angeles, who is helping in the circu¬ lation of anti-Semitic leaflets; Henry Hunt: Local leader of "American Na¬ tional" Labor Party in New York; Walter Kappe: A leader of the League of the Friends of New. Germany and editor of the New York Deutscher Wcckruf und Beobachter ahd alien leader connected with the Bund; Dr. Otto Kiep: Former German Consul General in New York City and espion¬ age pay agent; Werner Kuehtz: Na¬ tional treasurer of "American Na¬ tional" Labor Party; Fritz Kuhn, Na¬ tional leader of the I'riends of New Germany and former provincial leader of the Middle West. Now in full charge as its leader, elected for four years and recently became a citizen, using citizenship as pro¬ tection for his espionage againat the United States; Herbert Lange:: Local leader of "American National" Labor Party; Kwit Georg Wilhelm Luedecke; Nazi propagandist, now one of the leaders of the League of the Friends of New Germany, or its suc- cessor,r the Bund; Rudi Markmann; Provincial leader of the East of the. Friends of New Germany, or the Bund; Captain Frederick C. Mensing: Official of North German Lloyd Line (Contintted OH page 4)

v<
Centfdl OKio's Only
Jewish Newspaper
Reaehing Every Home
iDevoted to Ameneani
¦ ¦ , «
Jewiah Ideals
A WElEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Volume XVII—No. i88
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JUF.Y 30, nj:x7
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy im
Strictly Conedential
By PHINEAS J. BIROn
Schulman Warns of Jewish
Nationalism in Proposed
Jewish State
About People
You can find plenty of polilicat ob¬ servers who insist that Governor Leh¬ man's open disagreement with Roose¬ velt over thc Supreme Court reform hill is the opening shot in the New York governor's bitl for a Senatorial toga ... Dut you can find just as many who believe it foreshadows Lehman's definite retirement from public life at the expiration of his present term... When you read about the wonders per¬ formed by Marconi, inventor of the wireless, don't forget that his great achievements were based on the dis¬ covery of the radiation of electromag¬ netic waves by Heinrich Hertz, a Ger¬ man Jewish scientist Incidentally, the first major use of wireless was m reporting the sinking of thc Titanic m 1912, and the operator who received the news of the disaster was David Sarifoff, now president of the Radio Corporation of America . Oddest job of the year honors go to Louis Zmberg, hair removal expert, who's bound for South America to persuade Latiji - Americans to remove their bcartls and mustaches Lord Du
Veen's priceless art collection was started by his ancestor, a blacksmith In the medicine chest of the Mac- Crc^or Arctic Expedition is a new preparation to prevent sunburn and windburn developed by Eli Gcrshono- witz| a Jersey City druggist . . . Ver¬ non Duke, Dukelsky to you, will get the job df completing the unfinished musical assignments of George Gersh¬ win '
To Be or Not to Be Partitioned
The Aga Khan, multi-mdhonaire spiritual head of miUions of Moslems in India and Africa, is going on : secret mission in behalf of the Brit¬ ish govern'mcnt to wm Moslem sup port for Palestme partition . Zion¬ ists arc wondering what happened to the much-touted anti-partition speech Cleveland's Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver was to have made at a mass meeting of t^e Federation of English Zionfsts . It didn't come off.. We hear that Vladimir Jabotinsky's uncompromising opposition to partition is weakening .. The Hearst papers will follow up their Lloyd George scoop on partition with an anti-partition article by Winston Churchill . Incidentally, all the Hearst papers are plumping against' partition for all they're worth Stephen S. Wise will attend the ses¬ sion of the Mandates Commission which will debate partition . Did you notice that the House of Com-1 mons took time out to debate the' Palcor-Seven Arts scoop on the Royal Commission report^
Nazis Are Like That
Hitler must be getting jealous of us In the fall he intends to start a daily newspaper column ..That the Nazis are not adverse to exploiting Jews abroad when it serves the long- range political objectives of Germany IS disclosed by a sensational piece of Nazi propaganda that has just come to light As part of their drive
against Czechoslovakia, the Nazis have flooded Central Europe with millions of copies of a leaflet containing the details of an alleged Czechoslovakian scheme to create a new Pan-Slavic empire by addmg Poland and Hun- garj to Czechoslovakia . Among other things, the leaflet says that when thc plan becomes effective the Jews now living' within the borders pf the proposed empire . will be segregated and shipped en masse to Birobidjan... At least 30 members of, the British House of Commons,and a dozen mem¬ bers of the House of Lords are secretly allied with Sir Oswald Mosley's Fas¬ cists . .'. Friedrich Nietzsche, long re¬ garded as the patron saint of Nazism, is in dutch in Germany ... Kurt vori Westernhagcn, a Nazi author, has at¬ tacked the' pan-German philosopher as pro-Jewisi) . . . But the Nazi press is hesitating to acclaim Westernhagcn, fearing, embarrassment if it excom¬ municates Nietzche's works at this late date...
Things to Watch
Pro-Nazi elements in the Amateur Athletic Union are sharpening the axe for President Jeremiah T. Mahoney ...The first blow.will fall when some 20 Mid-west clubs friendly to ex-pres¬ ident Avery Brundage, of Olympic Games fame, announce their resigna¬ tion from the A. A. U. . . . , This i: said to be the first move in the crea¬ tion of a rival body . .. The Brundage crowd doesn't like Mahoney's' efforts to bring labor into, the sports picture . . . We never met the first seven hus¬ bands of Mrs. Virginia Cogswell of Atlanta, Georgia, but we surely don't (CotMniui m page 8)
NEW YORK (WNS)—Denying that the proposed partition of Palestine is an admission of British failure and expressing the beljcf that Jewry "can still trust British statesmanship," Rabbi Samuel Schulman, rabbi emeri¬ tus of New York's Temple Emaiiu-EI, in a letter to thc New York Times commenting on the plan to set up a Jewish State in Palestine, reiterates his -anti-Zionist views,' assails, Jewisii nationalism and reaffirms his 'behci tiat the Jews are only a religioua community and not a race or a nation He says that "nationalism is about tl^c worst conception with which Israel can be called upon to operate," and adda that "our redemption cannot come by way of Palestme" but only through the fjible and "the strengthening of liberty and democracy and humanity in the world."
Warning that "the imagination ol thc Jpws must not be concentrated on Palestine," Rabbi Schulman declares that the relations of the Jews of the world to the proposed Jewish State "would be those of brethren united in religion and separated from them by nationality The Jews would help —^as they are helping now—immigra¬ tion of as many Jews from lands o( persecution as possible mto that new State They would feel a certain sat¬ isfaction if their coreligionists made a success in state building But the Jews in all the other lands are na¬ tionals of the lands to which they be¬ long They wdl under no circum¬ stances accept a hyphenated position' Nevertheless he urges the Jews to ac¬ cept partition, but to ask for more land for the Jewish State He also declares that the Jewish problem can¬ not he solved by whatever may be done m Palestine, but in the lands in which the masses of Jews live "by the recog¬ nition of Christendom's responsibdity for the equality of human rights to which the Jew is entitled^'
McMahon Breaks Long
Silence, Denies Pledge
To' Arabs.
LONDON (WNS —Palcor Agency) — Dramatically break¬ ing his twenty years of silence on the pledge which he made on lichalf of thc British govern¬ ment to the' Arabs during tlie war. Sir Henry McMahon made a statement emphatically deny- - ing that any promise which he made to King Hussein included Palestine. Deelarlng "that -his" silence hag often heen misunder¬ stood and that he therefore felt bound to make a statement re¬ garding the pledges made to the Araba, Sir Henry wrote a^ fol¬ lows in an article published in the London Times:
"I definitely and emphatically must declare that the promise to King Hussein for Arab inde¬ pendence did not include Pales¬ tine. I also had every reason to believe at the time that tho fact that Palestine was not included in this pledge was well under¬ stood by King Hussein." As British High Commissioner of Egypt, Sir Henry wrote a letter to the Sherif of Mecca in Octo¬ ber, 1915, pledging British as¬ sistance for Arab independence in exchange for Arab assistance against the Turks.
Good Will Movement to Concentrate on ^"^ ^^.I^ZrlZJ^'''^ Teacher-Training Schools Next Year
NEW YORK (WNS)—Tp train future instructors oi'tlic nation in the proficient use of thfe best technique? for developing iii yjoung people atti¬ tudes tending toward tlie achievement of human relationships niofc in keep¬ ing with American ^'policies, the Na- tional Conference of! Jews and Chris¬ tians, will make itsyprimary interest during the coming ;|ear an intensive effort for the prbnibtion of its tech- ni(iue for furthering! more wholesome 'hiEfir-fdith'telaiiOHst^ps among facul-^ ties and undcrgradu itcs in teacher training colleges throughout the coun¬ try, It was annountctl here hy Dr Everett R Chnchy^ director of thc Conference, in maldng public a re¬ port of the organization's work m edu¬ cational institutions! during the past year Citing a mariJcd trend m reli¬ gious work on college campuses m communication and cnoperation, with¬ out compromise ^nd convictions, among Protestant, Lazarns Sisterhood. Mrs. Allen Gundersheimer, 42 Park Drive, president of the Sist^rhaod, has extended an invitation to all mem¬ bers to come to her home that day at 2:30 o'clock. Bingo, niah jong, and bridge will be enjoyed and will be fol¬ lowed by a tea, Watch next week's Chronicle for further announcements.
NEW YORK (WNS)-Far from solving the knotty problem of Arab- Jewish relations, thc proposed parti¬ tion of Palestine merely guarantees the continuance and mteasification of Arab- Jewish difficulties and is hkely to lead to an Arab-Jewish war, Winston Churchill, former British Colonial Secretary and memher, of the vuar- tifflc cabinet that~ issued the Balfour Declaration, declares m a copyrighted article appearing in the Hearst news¬ papers Calling tlie partition plan "a council of despair" which if earned into effect "marks the end of the Zion¬ ist dream," Churchill points out that since there are almost as many Arabs as Jews in thc proposed Jewish state, the Royal Commission's argument that Jews and Arabs cannot dwell peace¬ ably side by side is vitiated because, as he asks, "how can it be believed that they will dwell together m amity within the narrow compass of a frac¬ tion of that land'"
Warning that "thc same troubles (will) reproduce themselves m mten- sificd form inside a tiny Jewish sovereign state as have thrown all Pal¬ estine into strife," the veteran states- imn predicts that the Jewish state will ha\e to be armed to the teeth to resist the encroachments of fhe Ajrab stitc and its ally, Iraq This would also endanger the British garrison and administration in thc proposed neutral area, he asserts, criticizing the British Government's failure to state what guarantees of protection it would give to the Jewish and Arab states and to the minorities in either to prevent them from becoming victims of aggression The absence of such guarantees, he protests, "would be an opening for Nazi and Fascist propaganda and in trigue to arouse and marshal the A^^b peopled -and to. use them as a new means of pressure upon the British on his difficult beat."
Claiming that there is no reason "Which should lure us into such a .trap," and predicting that the e.stali- lishment of soyiereign Arab and Jew¬ ish states uncontrolled by England would make Britain's responsibilities impiossible to discharge, he deplores the failure to take Into account grave strategic problems, praises Parliament for refusing to commit itself finally to partition and expresses the hope that in the interval Arabs and Jews will yet find a way of getting together in the interests of peace. He also points out that much of the Arab fears of Jewish domination arise from the flood of Jewish immigration resulting from "the cruel persecutions of Jews in Germany" and the "exploitation of anti-Semitism as a means by which violent reactionary forces seize or at' tempt to seize despotic power." Argu¬ ing that this is not Britain's fault, he declares that while "the duty of re¬ ceiving and aiding these unhappy out¬ casts should have been broadly shared by the free, wealthy and parliamentary nations." the "brunt of this work has fallen upon this very small country and the administration of Palestine.''
Spanish Leader Deplores
Militant Anti-Fascist
Attitude pf Jews
NEW YORK (WnS)—Lamenting the fact that Jews art too militantly anti-Fascist, Salvador de Madanaga, former Spanish reprcsentati\e to the League of Nations, calk "the reaction provoked by the Jewish oppression under the Hitler regime' one of the three forces which Iia\e led the Left astray in the world-wide struggle be¬ tween Fascism and anti-FasLism In an article called "Thc Errors of the Left in the Right-Left War" m the New York TiraCs*' "Magazine, Senor Madariaga declares 'no human being with even a smattering of history can be Ignorant of ttl Splendid service rendered to civilization by the Jewish race Even if religious prepossessions prevent such a person from realizing that the greatest spiritual creative force of Western civilization is derived from a Jew—^Jesus of Nazareth—the great name of Spinoza should sufBcc to establish our Western debt to Jewish culture ^Iso, there are abundant in¬ dications—soon, I hope, to be proved as certainties—to show that Christo¬ pher Columbus was a Spanish Jew
But when all that is said, the fact remains that the psychological reaction of many Jews toward the inhuman treatment inflicted on their brethren by the Nazi regime is a political blunder of the greatest magnitude The strength of the Jew has always con¬ sisted in his being everywhere a force making toward freedom of thought and of liberalism; m being everywhere in favor of the method of mental agree¬ ment ^ni^ i^ot that of physical fight Owing to a passionate reaction easy to understand, with which one may sympathize jet which one must re¬ gret, the Jews often in recent years have taken a militant anti-Fascist at¬ titude which displaces them from the ground on which they had always stood, and where they should remain, for It 15 on that ground that their spiritual force lies And there is no mistaking the fact that m tlie error be^ ing committed by the Left in ado[lting such a militant warlike attitude to¬ ward dictatorships, the Jewish situa¬ tion is an unfortunate and powerful factor."
VIENNA (WNS)—Citing figures to show that since 1933 no new Jewish physicians have been admitted to any Austrian hospitals and that all .Jew¬ ish physicians admitted to practice in the last five years liave been starving, the'Union of Jewish doctors of Austria has issued an appeal to Australian Jews to discourage their sons and daughters from studying niedicine. The appeal warns that there is' no future for Jewish doctors in Austria.
20th World Zionist Con¬ gress to Open Tuesday In Zurich
Eyes of World on Assembly Be^ cause of Proposed New Pal¬ estine Mandate
DICKSTEIN NAMES 46
NAZI SPIES AND AGENTS
IN AMERICA
New Jersey Veterans Ash 3 Probes of Nazi Camp
NEWARK, N J (WNS)—Inves¬ tigations by the federal department of justice, the state attorney general and statci legislature, of subversive actni- ties at Camp Noidland, Nazi camp at Andover, N J, were called for m resolutions adopted by the command¬ ers of 30 posts of the American Le¬ gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Jew¬ ish War Veterans, Irish War Veter¬ ans and the Order of thc Purple Heart, who met here to consider steps against the Nazi camp The resolutions were adopted by the -veteran leaders m their individual capacities but they agreed to urge their posts to endorse them
Ladies' Mizrachi Picnic Will
Be Held Sunday at
Olentaiiigy Park
The annual picnic of the Ladies Mizrachi Society which was arranged for last Sunday, was postponed on ac¬ count of rain, and will take place to¬ morrow (Sunday), August 1st, at Olentangy Park.
Everything has been done to make this event one of the most enjoyable for both young and old. Varioiis games and amusements, prizes, etc. will be offered by the organization. Thc proceeds of this annual affair will go towards caring for many of the Polish and German refugees in Pales¬ tine. The co-operation of the Jewish people of this city 9nd surrounditig towns is most essential to.assure the success of this undertaking. ' The entire community is invited to the picnic Sunday. There will be much in store for everyone in the way of entertainment
WASHINGTON, D C (WNS)— Charging that Nazi organizations m this country now had a membership of 350,000, Representative ^Samuel Dick- stem of New York, called on the House of Representatives to adopt. Representative Martin Dies' resolution pro\iding for a congressional investi¬ gation of Nazi, Fascist and Commun¬ ist activities After etllmg the House that State Senator William Dolan of Sussex county, "and possibly other politicians," had a hand in the purchase or lease of the Andover camp site by the German-American Bund, Representative Dickstein read a tele¬ gram from W J. Carney, New Jer¬ sey director of the Committee for In¬ dustrial Organization, asking Congress to look mto the Nazi camps and as- saihng (jovernor Hoffman of New Jersey for his ' laxitj in the investiga¬ tion of Nazi encampments at Camp M 0 r d 1 a n d and throughout New Jersey "
Furloughs for Jewish Soldiers And Sailor's
WASHINGTON, D C (WNS)— Jewish soldiers and sailors in the United States Army and Navjf will be granted Rosh Hashanah furloughs commencing at sundowii, Sunday, Sep- teftiber 5th, and ending Tuesday, Sep¬ tember 7th, according to orders issued here by the ^at and Navy Depart¬ ments. The orders also provide for Yom Kippur furloughs beginning at sundown Tuesday, September .14th and ending at sundown Wednesday, Sep¬ tember 15th. Similar orders have been issued by, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Veterans Administration and the Civilian Con¬ servation Corps, A
Invents Mask to Prevent Hay Fever
CINCINNATI (WNS)-CIimax ing five years of research, Dr. Joseph B, Hiederman of Cincinnati announced the successful completion of an anti- hay-fever mask which uses electrically charged plates to preVent the entrance of the disease-causing pollens into the nose and mouth. Tests on 40 patients gave perfect results.
Bar Jewls from Armed Groups
VIENNA (WNS)-AUhough the Union of Jewish War Veterans was recently admitted to the Fatherland Front, quasi-Fascist government party, Jews are to be excluded from the new armed groups the fatherland front is planning to establish for the protection of meetings and the policing of demon¬ strations, according to reports ii;i the Austrian press.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (WNS)—The 20th World Zionist Congress, Vvhich opens here Tuesdav (August 3rd) is recognized as the most important to be held during thc 10 years of Zionist Congress history Already indications point to a greater attendance of delegates and guests than St any other similar gathering in the past Zionist flags arc already flying alt over the city and although tha opening ceremonies are still a few days away, "Congress atmosphere" perme¬ ates this Swis-i city Every train and plane arriving here brings delegates and visitors from the four corners of the earth The advance guard has given this city an unusual cosmopolitan area Gabardined Jews from Eastern Europe speaking Yiddish congregate in the same hotels with smooth-shaved delegates from Western Europe and America Virtually every language m the world is now heard in Zurich as the Congress delegates eagerly spec¬ ulate on the decisions of the mo¬ mentous assembly
This wdl be the first Congress at which the dean of modern Zionism, the late Nahum Sokolow, will not be present Missing too will be many other striking figures of the Zionist old guard who have passed on since the Idth Congress convened in Lucerne two years ago It goes without say¬ ing that much of the tensity and ex¬ citement anticipated because of the partition plan ate lacking because of the decision of the British Govern¬ ment to uithhold final action on the division of Palestine until after it has been acted upon by the League of Nations Nevertheless, partition is the chief topic of conversation and will undoubtedly he the keynote of the po¬ litical debate.
From advance calculations approxi¬ mately 350 delegates will represent the various countries Labor Zionists are expected to have a clear majority. The other raajcjr parties, however, wilt have a very articulate representation and oratorical clashes between the Poale-Zion, the General Zionists, the Mizrachi and the Jewish State party arc expected on the vital issues to be discussed Dr Chaim Weizmann president of the World Zionist Or¬ ganization and of the Jewish Agency, will undoubtedly be the pivotal figure at the Congress His political steW' ardship will be subjected to close scrutiny by those who oppose Zionist Labor The World Zionist Executive will come before the Congress united, there having been the closest rela¬ tionships between the Laborites, David ben Gurion and Moshe Shertok, and Dr. V\^eizmann. Mttch speculation re- vplves around the positioit that Dr. Stephen S. Wise, leader of the Amer¬ ican delegation, will take on the po¬ litical situation. Because of his great influence in American political circles he will be regarded not only as the principal spokesman for the American delegation but as one of the key figures at the Congress.
Fifty-four countries will be refirct sented by one or more delegates, Den¬ mark being repr^ented for the first time. The entire Congress will be the tiiost representative of all time, thc delegates having been elected by 1,2D0,- 000 shekel payers throughout the world. The German delegation, ever since the advent of the Hitler regime in a rather delicate position, will be joined this time by the Italian dele' gation, if one comes. Both of these Zionist groups will have to tread softly as their words and acts at the Con gress will be closely watched by agents of Italy and Germany. It is wel! known also that practically every gov¬ ernment in Europe, with a genuine in' terest in the ultimate fate of Palestine will be unofficially represented at the Congress by observers carefully weigh¬ ing the sentiment of world Zionism as regards the proposed new mandate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNS)— As evidence of the existence, of what ¦ he called a "well-organized, subversive, ¦ i un-American spy system" by Nazi or- . ganizations and agents in this coun- : try, and in support of the. mOve for , an investigation of Nazi propaganda, Representative Samuel Dickstein of .New York laid.before the House of ¦ Representatives the names of .46 per¬ sons whom he, described as "Nazi propagandists agents, stool pigeon^ and spies', the location of 21 Nazi camps, and the names of some 51 pur¬ ported Na?j organizations in the East¬ ern part of thc United States
TFie persons identified as N^z^ agents were
Kitty Aschciibrcnner Disguised as nurbe, sht was for a long time active as a Nazt agetit in this country - She was finally e^cposed and deported^ Kurt Beyer enrolled member of the N S D. A P. Manager of San Francisco office of German railroads, Withe Belle Owner of large furni¬ ture store, 1495 Third Ave , New York City, and a notorious Nazi sym¬ pathizer, Carol Brunkhorst forme Stahlhcini contact man and confiden¬ tial messLnger, Hans Cremer Con¬ tact man between Bunaste Leader Deutsch and N S D A P. in Ger- manv, Richard Desseckcr Adjutant leader qf ' American National" Labor Party, Joachim Deutsch Leader of the Bunaste, Colonel Edwin Emerson American lawjer, jour;iaIist and ad¬ venturer Employed hy Nazis as "front" to disguise their activities and give them ostensible legal foundation, Fritz Gissibl The power behind the throne in Nazi intrigue m this coun¬ try and one of the leaders of the Friends of New Germany, or its suc¬ cessor, the Bund, Rev Francis Gross An ex-Catholic priest and vitriolic anti-Semitic writer, Walter Haag: Former aide to Spanknoebel, at pres¬ ent engaged in Gestapo work with the German National Railways Bureau m Toronto, Canada; Hugo Haas NaT-
Nazi Fuehrer Demands Con¬ gress Probe Nazi Groups
NEW YORK